CIW IBA Lesson 6 Vocabulary

A symbol or word used in Internet searches to narrow search results by including or excluding certain words or phrases from the search criteria.

• Boolean operator

• common field

A field contained in two or more database tables that forms a connection between the tables.

• common field

• Boolean operator

Allows a Web server to pass control to a software application, based on user request. The application receives and organizes data, then returns it in a consistent format.

• Common Gateway Interface (CGI)

• field

A collection of data that can be sorted and searched using search algorithms.

• database

• field

A program used to store, access, and manipulate database information.

• database management system (DBMS)

• foreign key

A category of information in a database table.

• field

• foreign key

A field in a related database table that refers to the primary key in the primary table.

• foreign key

• junction table

A catalog of the contents of a database. Each entry identifies a unique database record.

• index

• search engine

A word that appears on a Webpage and is used by search engines to identify relevant URLs. Some words, such as "the" or "and," are too common to be used.

• keyword

• junction table

A relationship in which one record in Table A can relate to many matching records in Table B, and vice versa.

• many-to-many relationship

• one-to-many relationship